Chapter 203 Champions League: Real Madrid vs Barcelona (Part 2)
When Eggsy blocked Messi, Messi was a little surprised. He was just thinking whether this was a case of a newborn calf not fearing a tiger, but the next second Eggsy showed no fear at all and even started to block. Moreover, Messi would not be held back by Eggsy if he just blocked.
The key point is that Eggsy not only blocked the ball, but also tried to steal the ball. He quickly changed his attack and defense direction several times, and Messi even felt that he was a little slow to react at the beginning.
It's not that Eggsy is too strong. Although Eggsy was played by Zidane with breakthroughs and defenses for a week, his own defense and breakthroughs were indeed a large-scale attack. But he was facing Messi, who ran very fast and at a very high frequency.
It was Messi's first time playing against Eggsy, so he didn't dare to be careless, so he handled Eggsy's interception very carefully. At the same time, he also wanted to test whether Eggsy's ability was worth his effort.
However, he didn't expect that the more he tried, the more frightened he became, because Eggsy was not responsible for resisting Messi at all, he was only there to steal the ball.
They are all players, how can stealing the ball be considered stealing!
The one who really came to block it was of course Kroos, so Eggestein and Kroos defended together, and Modric also helped. Messi's foot was hot under the ball, and the further back Real Madrid's defense line went, the harder it was to attack. If the ball was not passed out at this time, it would only become more and more difficult under this defense.
So Messi made his choice quickly. He knew he had to pass the ball. Kroos and Eggsy's defense could only make Barcelona's attack continue to fail. So Messi also knew that unless he could break through Real Madrid's defense line or bypass it, otherwise...
While Messi was thinking about it, he kicked the ball directly to his teammate!
Now we can only think of ways, but we can't give up the attack, so Messi made the most correct choice, which is to pass the ball. This choice is correct, and everyone, including the commentator, also said it was correct.
"Oops, Messi passed the ball."
"We should have passed the ball at this time," the guest who was doing tactical research on the side said, "Messi is worthy of it. He still has a stable view of the overall situation at this time. If they pass the ball now, the attack they organized will not be in vain. But this goal... oh!"
Messi's pass was timely, but the ball was already exquisitely played by everyone halfway through the game. But no matter how exquisite it was, it was useless. If Messi was the free man of Barcelona, then Eggsy was the ranger of Real Madrid.
So this teleportation expert can let the ball slip away? Of course not!
"Eggsy! Oh my, you can catch up with this?"
"That's interesting. Eggsy was able to catch up so quickly. Was it because of my quick reaction? Or did he really see through Messi's pass?"
"I think it's because of his quick reaction. After all, Eggsy is an Oxford graduate, so he should have some brains."
Eggsy is now said to be 17 years old, and he may only be 18 after the Chinese New Year. If you ask them to believe that a child who is only 18 years old can have such ability to analyze the overall situation, they will not say it out loud even if they believe it.
It's too exaggerated.
Now Real Madrid and Barcelona are playing in an orderly manner, but the fans of Barcelona and Real Madrid always feel that something is not right. Why... it seems that the Real Madrid players are not in a hurry to attack today?
Barcelona fans also felt that it was strange that Barcelona players seemed quite anxious today.
So, while Barcelona's offensive pressure was constant, Real Madrid's attack was very methodical, it was like the situation was completely reversed.
In fact, to be honest, there is a reason why Barcelona plays like this. MSN suddenly loses its striker Neymar, which means Barcelona lacks forwards.
Compared to Real Madrid's all-offensive lineup today, Barcelona, as an old rival, immediately figured out what was going on. They basically knew that Real Madrid was definitely not up to any good reason. They were going to attack them right from the start and get the first point, and maybe they would park the bus later, anyway, they would defend the point and disgust them.
So Barcelona was determined to get a point first. But this played into Zidane's hands. He calculated that Barcelona would realize that this was an offensive game and would want to seize the initiative, so Zidane let his team set up an offensive lineup, but in fact they were still playing a defensive counterattack.
However, this counterattack was just a quick attack. Such an arrangement did tie Barcelona to its own rhythm. Now Barcelona could only start to fight with Real Madrid in the midfield. Zidane watched himself make such a series of traps and planned the follow-up plans.
The attack had been going on for less than ten minutes, but both sides had figured out each other's tactics. Messi, as a free man in Barcelona, had some chances to attack in the last ten minutes, but the midfielders and defenders behind him were surrounded by Eggesie and Modric, so they could not react in time.
This is very embarrassing. Messi rushed forward and blocked the position perfectly, but the ball didn't come up! Or the ball came, but Messi was blocked by Modric halfway and couldn't come up~, alas! Anyway, you have one less player, and the striker is just single. This is not my Real Madrid's fault~
However, Messi was similarly stuck and had no time to attack, while Real Madrid's Ronaldo, Bale and Benzema could only attack and start a three-way attack, leaving Barcelona's defense no chance to get out of their own penalty area.
But this situation made Real Madrid's midfielders very anxious, because Eggestein and Modric were really trying hard to steal and control the ball, but is it so easy to steal the ball from Barcelona?
Modric and Eggesi are not enough, and Kroos has become the last piece of the puzzle in the triangle ball possession area. To put it bluntly, the three of them go out together to grab the ball and monopolize the opponent's ball.
"Oh! What a pity for this goal," the host was about to say as he watched Modric chasing Messi. Messi's attack might still be ineffective, but the fact is that plans can't keep up with changes. "Hey! Hey!!! What kind of trick is this?!"
The fans' shouts of surprise were not exaggerated at all, because although Modric was chasing and blocking Messi who was holding the ball, the King of Coal's running speed was well known to be fast, and it was still a bit difficult for Modric to intercept him or prevent him from passing the ball.
But, it would be different if there was help.
At this time, Kroos was very scheming and pressed forward from the middle, intending to meet Benzema in the middle. His appearance just forced Messi, who was holding the ball, to dodge, or to avoid the opponent as soon as possible, but he was stunned the next second.
Because after Modric and Kroos, Eggsy came out from the front again. In order to avoid Kroos's American system, he just took the king to the right. Didn't he force himself to the sideline? And Eggsy's coming from the front was like a lid on the pot.
Messi really couldn't escape now! The ball under his feet couldn't be passed to a goal either, because Eggsy's height was not fake. The first thing Messi had to do was to take a risky ground pass or to kill himself.
This is a great opportunity. If he goes any further, he will hit the right back line of Real Madrid! A dead ball? Messi was unwilling to do it! He looked at Eggsy in front of him and even made a set of fake moves, intending to break through Eggsy and force the ball.
The Eggsy in front of him was no longer the same Eggsy as before. He had been trained by Zidane in secret for the past few days, and all his minor flaws in defense and dribbling had been exposed. Eggsy was trained so badly by Zidane that he had to go home holding on to the wall almost every night.
It seems that Zidane really played Eggsy well.
This really made the hair on his body stand up when he heard Zidane's voice with a French accent those days. Ramos and Modric had seen it. They were eating in the cafeteria and they heard Zidane talking with others. They were so scared that they spilled the soup in their spoons.
Modric and Ramos both raised their eyebrows at that time. They looked at Eggsy's panic-stricken expression and said to him with a smile, "Is it really that serious?"
Igersi's performance at that time left a deep impression on Ramos and Modric, because Igersi first sighed, looked up at the sky at a 45-degree angle and then said: "He taught me all kinds of moves step by step, but every time I attacked, he would snatch the ball away, without exception..."
This immediately shocked Modric. Zidane's dribbling and breakthrough were like a fairy from outer space. Not only Eggesi, but even Modric couldn't do it.
But Ramos asked at the time: "Didn't you learn his Tianwai Feixian before?"
Before Eggsy could answer, Modric answered first: "Ah, how can it be Tianwai Feixian? It is just imitating the Tianwai Feixian's movements."
"Zidane's real talent is not his volleying technique, but his dribbling skills after he breaks through. Every step is a move that opponents and teammates can't imagine. As long as he is still running and the ball is at his feet, Zidane can use all kinds of magical moves to dribble, break through and shoot."
When talking about this, Modric's eyes sparkled. Although he wanted to learn, he knew that his physical fitness and height were not enough. But now Eggsy's height and physical fitness are almost the same as Zidane's back then. Zidane was right to pass on his skills to him.
Moreover, the painful training for Eggsy now is not because of the hard work of physical training, but more likely because Zidane's ideology has changed some of his original small movements, habitual movements and wrong movements.
What Modric knew, Eggsy also knew. So no matter how painful it was for Eggsy to hold on during those days, it was for this moment!
He ran straight towards Messi, and when Messi was about to dribble the ball, Eggsy successfully tackled the ball out with an extremely smooth sliding tackle. He was able to stand up directly with the force of the sliding tackle, and then immediately accelerated to chase the ball!
"Beautiful! Eggsy successfully grabbed the ball!"
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